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Death of Mao: 9 September 1976 - This Day in History
Marxist revolutionary Mao Zedong, who died this day in 1976, emerged as the undisputed Chinese Communist Party leader following the Long March (1934–35) and dominated China in the period after the communist takeover in 1949.
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1956: Rock and roll star Elvis Presley made his first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1948: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) was proclaimed, setting the stage for the Korean War.
1861: Sally Louisa Tompkins was commissioned a cavalry captain; she was the only woman to be commissioned in the Confederate army.
1774: The Suffolk Resolves, protesting the Intolerable Acts, were passed at a meeting in Massachusetts.
1087: The English king William I (the Conqueror) died from an injury suffered while attempting to capture the town of Mantes and was later buried at St. Stephen's Church.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Biography of the Day
French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, whose work reflected the aims of the Symbolist movement and greatly influenced French art through his innovations in style and subject matter, died on this day in 1901.
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